Number of appearances 5,306 4. It all started when John stole the identity of teacher Colin Fishwick, after he was sacked from his job on account of his affair with teenager Rosie Webster. John later returned to the Street and placed the body near the wreckage. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. First appearance Fiz wrongly accused Kirk of the damage but later apologised when she realised he was innocent. When she locked the keys of her car in the boot, they hid the body in a hole at Underworld (which was blown up by Tony Gordon a month earlier) intending to collect it in the morning. Occupation He snatched his daughter Hope when caught by Fiz, and made a run for it and Fiz was hit by Owen's van when chasing after him. John returned later in the year when Fiz was accused of the murders, eventually found guilty of Colin Fishwick's death. After painting bruises on Hope, Jade told the social services Fiz was a bad mum, leading to Ruby and Hope being put temporarily in care. Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and the Yahoo Answers website is now in read-only mode. Charlottes death could be classed as self defence. Life after this was an increasingly desperate struggle to keep his secret; when Colin died in front of John and Charlotte Hoyle, John concealed his body and murdered Charlotte when she started blackmailing him. image caption Jacqueline Bartlam was struck with a claw hammer seven times The court heard he had been particularly interested in a Coronation Street storyline involving the character John Stape. Accepted back into the community, John began to miss teaching and stole ex-colleague Colin Fishwick's identity, as he was unable to get a teaching job under his own name. He came out of hiding in order to clear Fiz when she was accused of murdering his victims. John then had him wrapped up in a carpet and got Charlotte to help him smuggle the body away. Daniel Bartlam, a schoolboy obsessed with Coronation Street killer John Stape, was locked up for a minimum of 16 years after he was found guilty of battering his mother to death with a … But he was shocked to discover that Colin was about to be dug up at Underworld as there were problems with the pipes and the floor needed to be dug up. After being held prisoner in the attic for a few weeks, Rosie attacked John when Fiz came round to the house to "feed the cat" (he used it as an excuse to visit Rosie) and John tried to explain what was happening. Comments. 2007-2011 A teenage boy has been locked up for 16 years for murdering his mum. Graeme Hawley When he was found out, he jumped from the roof of Weatherfield General, incredibly managing to survive the fall and go on the run. Shortly after getting out of prison in 2009, Claire Peacock and Becky McDonald asked John to help them organise a charity Christmas play for the Rovers Return. She wrongly accuses John and Sally of having an affair. During his time on the street, his parents never visited. John left for hospital with Fiz as she went into early labour and gave birth to a premature daughter, who Fiz named Hope. In 2019, it was revealed that Jade Rowan, Hope's teaching assistant, was John's daughter from a prior relationship. After Chesney's schoolfriend Sophie Webster discovered Fiz and John's relationship, she vandalised Fiz's moped out of jealousy. You might not have done it, but don't tell me it doesn't happen. They were nearly caught many times and Fiz suspected that John was up to something, and began to think that he was having an affair with Sally. Fiz forgave John again before he died, leaving her distraught. Fiz followed John to their house and was shocked when hearing him confessing the truth about murdering Charlotte and Joy. Some years later, John began teaching at Weatherfield High. Rosie later lost this money to Luke Strong. Chesney went to see the Hoyles, and gave them the address of where John was. John Stape was the schoolteacher husband of Fiz Stape and father of Hope who died in 2011 after his secret life of crime was uncovered. John later began an affair with Sally's sixteen-year-old daughter Rosie Webster, whilst still having a relationship with Fiz. She went to hospital and family decided it was best to switch off the monitors. John got to see Hope, and Fiz told him that she had forgiven him and would always tell Hope about him. John began doing odd-jobs for Colin's ill mother Joy as he felt guilty. John Stape CORONATION Street fans have spotted a major blunder after Chesney seemingly forgot the John Stape murder plot. However, when they found out that Katy Armstrong, Chesney's girlfriend, was about to abort their baby, John panicked and tried to convince her not to, and headed back to the cellar, only to find Chesney and the Hoyles untied. Fiz stuck by him when he decided to steal his ex-teaching friend Colin Fishwick's identity. Fiz split up with John again and he was later arrested and kept in custody. Spouse(s) Fiz briefly left for a holiday, but returned to announce she was pregnant and they got back together. When she passed away in 2008, she left John her country house in her will, and £190,000. When he was stalked by Charlotte Hoyle, Fiz had enough and left for a holiday, but returned when finding out she was pregnant and John gave up his teaching job, unknown to Fiz that John had concealed the real Colin's body beneath Underworld. Daniel Bartlam, 14, of Georgia Drive, Redhill, hit his mother Jacqueline Barton several times on the head with a claw hammer. 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